Emphasis is mine.

I don't believe that the Times is incorrigibly racist.  

Should this appear on Kos though, an accusation of racism would be as INEVITABLE as a rainy day.

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I do not believe that Karl Rove is a genius, or even much smarter than the political operative.

Rather, his strength is that he is absolutely unbound by any sort of moral or ethical limits, and this makes him completely unpredictable and dangerous.

He is a sociopath, and honor and selflessness is NOT a characteristic of sociopaths, so I'm wondering, will he roll to protect his own sorry flabby ass?

Numerous reporters are now sayingthat Rove outed Valerie Plame's, which begs the question, "What happens next?"

With a normal administration, even one as corrupt as the Reagan's, he would be gone by the end of the week.

This administration does not have the level of probity of the Reagan administration (now THAT'S a scary thought), there may be weeks of the drip drip drip of scandal, assuming the press shows SOME life, before he gets forced out.

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It was so corny as to induce cringes in me.  

This was particularly depressing given that I was so impressed with their Super Bowl censored ad.

So, how does one create decent ads to describe Republicans and their policies?

The Super Bowl ad is one way: Cogent, intelligent, and evocative.

But to anyone who has read my newsletters, you know that this is simply not my style.

Harry S Truman once said that he never gave the Republicans hell, but that " I Just Told the Truth and They Thought it Was Hell".

I say go reverse Republican on their asses.

I'm not suggesting that we lie, just that we use their own forms and linguistic constructs against them.

You don't have to lie to be nasty and sneaky.

What do I mean?

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At least that's what's been said on the Romenesko Media News Letters Page

This is just weird.  What is wrong with the press?

The information has been released, why not publish?

Here's one example.

My Mother-in-Law lives in Monesy, New York.

Following 911, she got cable.  Most of the people in her apartment complex who did not have cable or satellite.

Why? Because they could no longer get reliable over the air channels (there are probably about 20 in the NYC metro area).

So, anyone else know of similar odd beneficiaries of 911?

This is why discussions regarding immigration involve so much passion..

There are two views of immigration, and they are irreconcilable.

The first view sees immigration as a social issue to be addressed by the country in a manner that best suits the perceived self interest of the nation.  ("best suits the perceived self interest of the nation" still includes a LARGE area of dispute).

The second view sees immigration, particularly immigration involving people looking to improve their basic standard of living, as a basic human right, and that most restriction (keeping out war criminals and pedophiles is OK) is an affront to basic human rights.

These views are irresolvable, and there cannot be a meaningful debate.

Abortion is analogous.  If you believe that it is the murder of a human being, you cannot negotiate, or have meaningful debate, with those who see it as an issue of privacy and choice.

The race in his district (I'm not giving his name until I get this clear) is in the primary, and at least one seat is open because the state senator is going for congress, and one of the state reps (at least) is going for state senate.

Anyway, my guy is solidly anti-slots.

While opinion is evenly split in MD, Democrats are against it by more 60%, so it's a win in the primary.

I got assigned a little research project, come up with anti-slot factoids, particularly as regards slots and corruption.

I know that there have been corruption problems on some level in West Virginia, Deleware, and PARTICULARLY in Pennsylvania (the Mayor of Erie, whose name I cannot recall was arrested or indicted).

So could you all please get me stories, preferably with links about slots related corruption?

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Because there are no massive demonstrations, the Republicans can't point at the protestors and scream "UnAmerican".

People are forced to look at the mess that is Iraq, and not some guy with a 12 foot tall Uncle Sam puppet.

That being the case, how about California Kossaks circulating a petition to recall the Governator?

I'm not suggesting that we dump millions of dollars into the campaign, as car thief Congressman Darrell Issa did, just a one weekend a month, and two weeks a year serving the great state of California.

Even if you don't get enough signatures, you would get some press coverage, and Ahnuld would probably be so uptight about it that he'll have to forgo his steroid suppositories.

So, to quote Gary Gilmore

How do we know this?  Because the putative Republican nominee, Michael Steele, would be hard pressed to win a battle of wits with a can of Spam.

The obvious answer is to go negative.

Considering that one of the leading Democratic hopefuls, Kweise M'Fume, already has "genital vagabond syndrome" (he slept with a subordinate while president of the NAACP), it's easy for the Republicans to sling mud.

With Cardin, the other leading Dem hopeful, you can be sure that they will be opening their Republican thesaurus to find synonyms for "Jew".

I say, let's fight fire with fire.

Michael Steel is a part of a corrupt administration (In truth, most gubernatorial administrations in Maryland are pretty corrupt), and SOMETHING has had to rubbed off on him beyond practicing law without a license (he did some legal work for a relative).

We should be able to find evidence of corruption, or at least willful blindness, and we can start slinging mud first.

So, who's up for mud wrestling?

Mutton is adult sheep, lamb is baby sheep.

Does anyone out there have any idea where I might find kosher mutton?

When the going gets tough, the tough get smokers, spice rubs, and make plum barbecue sauce.

Well, what are you going to do, call me a troll and post recipes?

This is ALL ABOUT RECIPES.

That being said, I agree with Senator Durbin.

I firmly believe that we are routinely torturing people.

What's more, I believe that the administration, along with a significant portion of the officer corps are objectively pro torture.

It's not that they think that torture is a good tactic.  They have a very real need to torture these people, and absent compelling information to show that it is harmful, they will continue to do so.

So, what should Durban have said, here's my take on it:

That's how you put these troglodytes in their place.

There are millions of workers in the US who are kept on call, unpaid.

Even if you work a normal schedule (up to something like 46 hours), you can be kept "on call", meaning tied to a phone or pager, and not allowed to relax, go swimming, etc.

So here is a proposal: "When an employer requires an employee to be on call, or to be available at times other than their regular work schedule, the employee shall be paid no less than 1/2 the minimum wage."

For the WalMart example, a full time employee would be "on call" for 72 hours a week.

At $2.57/hour, WalMart would have to pay folks $185.04 to impinge on their free time that way.

I think that he's a freak show that should be avoided.

In my perfect world, I'd never hear his name.

But we don't live in a perfect world.

Rather than decrying the coverage of the Jackson trial, or the threatened blond of the week, we must use this as an opportunity to make statements further our cause.

When a Republican windbag shows up on a show, he talks about current events, and uses them.

Jackson?  Evidence of the moral bankruptcy of liberalism.

Run away bride?  Evidence that we are destroying our country with soft on crime liberal policies (before she's found), or that Jennifer Wilbanks is evidence of the harm caused by a "liberal upbringing".

We don't have to CARE about the freak.  We have to USE the freak to about the freak to put buttress our view.

Our talking points MUST address pop culture, because it speaks to a lot of people.

Congrats to Ms. Knox on getting into a CNN story.

BTW, here is the money quote:

I like sweet dessert pies.

I like savory meat pies. (I come across the latter in the context of my hobby of medieval re-enactment).

I also like pizza, which is a pie.

I even like those synthetic Hostess "fruit" pies.

So, I am asking Kossacks for a favor.

I want your pie recipes.

• Big pies.
  
• Small pies.
  
• Fig Pies
  
• Tall Pies.
  
• Pies with fruit.
  
• Pies that go "toot!"
  
• Apple pies.
  
• Scrapple pies.
  
• Pies using orange
  
• Pies made with . . . made with . . . made with . . .

I want to see some friendly sharing of pie recipies.

Full disclosure:  If I don't get a scrapple pie recipe, I won't feel incomplete.

Someone made a very good point about the pro illegal alien argument that "Illegal aliens do work Americans won't do" is an incomplete sentence.

The full sentence is "Illegal aliens do work Americans won't do AT A WAGE THAT THE EMPLOYERS WANT TO PAY."

• Illegal aliens are modern slave labor and that is wrong.
  
• Illegal immigration allows the ruling clique in a number of Latin American countries, particularly Mexico to ignore real substantive changes to make a fairer society, and that is wrong.
  
• Illegal immigration has demolished unions, and union wages in a number of industries, most notably meat packing, and that is wrong.
  
• Illegal aliens are placed in unsafe and unhealthy working conditions because their employers know that they can't complain, and that is wrong.

I need to migrate the profiles to the new machine.

I know that copying over the directories will transfer the cookies and bookmarks, but I'm not sure if this will do the same with themes and helper aps (bugmenot, adblocker, etc.)

So, what do I need to do to transfer over the themes and helper aps to go with the profiles to my new machine.

I should know this, but I'm having a brain fart right now.